Posted on 10/12/2009 12:21:02 AM PDT by sonofstrangelove
The Pentagon has acknowledged that it is speeding up plans to deploy a massive bomb capable of knocking out deeply buried enemy facilities. The giant "bunker buster" is believed to add fighting power to the U.S. arsenal against Iran's nuclear program, defense experts argue.
U.S. officials, however, have refused to confirm the connection.
The 30,000-pound massive ordnance penetrator is capable of penetrating up to 60 meters of earth, or a thick layer of concrete, before exploding. It weighs more than 13 metric tons, allowing just one such bunker buster to be carried by U.S. bomber aircraft.
"It is under development right now and should be deployable in the coming months," press secretary Geoff Morrell was quoted saying in a report by Defense News.
U.S. Pentagon officials said they had asked Congress in August to redirect $52 million in funding to the project in order to speed up production of the massive bomb.
After winning congressional approval, the Pentagon said this week that it had awarded Boeing's McDonnell Douglas a $51.9 million contract to "enable B-2 aircraft" to carry the bomb.
"The threats have been developing over the years," a Pentagon spokesman was quoted saying to U.S. media. "There are, without getting into any intelligence, there are countries that have used technologies to go further underground and to take those facilities and make them hardened. This is not a new phenomenon, but it is a growing one."
He said the first of the bombs would be ready by the middle of 2010.
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Excellent!
Quick, someone tell John Kerry.
A Look at Iran
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
I’m reminded just a bit of the development of the GBU-28 for the First Gulf War. It took all of about six weeks to build a bomb that could penetrate the hardened Iraqi command bunkers. IIRC, they use the barrels from old 8-inch SP howitzers for the bomb casing.
If it were me, in order to do my best to avoid a war, I would tell the world that Israel will have American backing for whatever they need. I think that may make Iran at least know they have NO chance of survival if they don't stop what they are doing.
Weakness will guarantee a war.
When Israel is forced to preemptively protect herself from Iran's Russian supplied nuclear weapons threats of mass extermination, it's alarmingly clear whose side the despicable White House creature shall favour (America's & Israel's enemies).
I've long wondered if such concept is possible when delivered by a ballistic missile? My understanding is it is possible from an ICBM but to my knowledge, Israel doesn't have ICBM's.
I don't see Obama bombing Iran and like the Bush, Obama will not give the Israelis the green light and the Iraq fly over rights needed to attack Iran.
A war the globalist elite badly wants to start. They want to start World War III in the Middle East.
well there goes the world as we know it
Good news is that Iran no longer has an AWACs plane - crashed.
Further, the Russians just canceled Iran's order for S300s and TORs at the behest of the Saudis who are buying them instead.
I don't know about that, BTW. Better not to take any chances, assuming that SA-15 Gauntlets and SA-20B Gargoyles are already in operational service with Iran, and they already are, poised to shoot down intruding Israeli F-15s and F-16s.
I want one for fire ant control in my pasture.
Check out the Shavit (Hebrew: "comet" - שביט) it is a space launch vehicle produced by Israel to launch small satellites into low earth orbit in 1988. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavit
Gadzooks! And that is just the one... 
we know about!
What good is this bomb when the President doesn’t have the balls to use it?
Never underestimate our enemies.
Obama will never use it. He will never attack Iran. He likes 3rd world tyrants.
He sees a little bit of himself in Amedinejad and Hugo Chavez
This bunker buster bomb is being displayed to make the Obama regime look more butch as 0bama's says to gays he will end "don't ask don't tell" in the US military.
So far 0bama has been enabling the Iranian nuclear program just like that bald headed stooge El Baredi at the UN
I would agree, economically speaking, a hot war in the oil lanes of the Persian Gulf with the fanatical (Moscow-supported) Iranian dictatorship attempting to 'wipe Israel off the map' will send the energy & precious metals market into never before witnessed excessively bullish & inflationary territory, based on the fear factor of a far greater war, while international stock markets shall fall quicker than the last sub-prime-triggered sell-off. The current recession will slide toward a full scale depression, contingent on the duration of greatly inflated energy costs, naturally effecting the price of all transported consumer goods.
All of the above could be avoided, in addition to being resolved, only if there was a true united front dedicated to removing the anti-Western tyrannies in Iran & Syria, and in doing so Hamas & Hezballah terrorist entities would be minus their chief arms & monetary benefactors and much easier to defeat. Due to the Middle Eastern Obama agenda, obvious resolutions shall not be forth coming, but the reverse.
Totally correct!
deep Shavit before they know it.
“removing the anti-western tyrannies in Iran and Syria”
imho this is job of an entirely differant order and it does appear this current admin is highly desirous of their continued presence :(
I wouldn’t count on Reza Pahlavi in exile to life a finger either-ever read any of his speeches ? worse than the bamsters’ and I usually nod out within 1 & 1/2 mins into them.
Syria? I don’t know who is talking to them and if someone is talking it’s an extremely low profile. be
The woman that married the hillbilly from Arkansas has been overseas trying to get the Turks and the Armenians to make up and play nice. She’s gotta’ be kidding herself unless her Lord and Master Bambilini stated to her “get thee to Turkey” which is obviously a order one cannot refuse.
Turkey & Armenia a non-publicized agreement so what’s the dealio?
Don't forget the "metro-male", RINO Lindsey Graham, our new and bestest friend of the socialists. These Republi-pr**ks just don't seem to get it. I was once a supporter of that turncoat.
Sh-h-h-h-h, don’t tell Obambi. His good buddies Hugo and I’m-a-dumb-diner-jacket won’t be happy about this. Besides, it’s so, so, so unfair of us because we’re the great, big, bad, meany, immoral Amerika!
The use of these bunker buster bombs would require massive air superiority. How many B-2 bombers might be lost to deliver just one such weapon? I would think that a kinetic energy weapon loaded on SLBMs would be a far more credible option.
why divide by two? Just askin. Never gradiated from college.
We accomplished that in 13 days, not six weeks.
when did that happen?
Here's an Al Jazeera link; Israel: Turkey cancels air drill
You are correct. Sorry, haven’t taken physics since 1995.
What was Syria using when the Israelis took out their nacient reactor? Remember everyone was surpprised inc. the Russians that the Jets were not picked up on tracking.
Awacs hit an escort jet during a parade and crashed into Khomini’s Tomb a couple of weeks ago, the Turk deal was a day ago, and so was the Saudia missile deal. All real recent.
Syria’s Cold-War era Soviet-supplied air defense net comprised SA-2, SA-3, SA-5, SA-6 and SA-10 missile batteries, SA-7 MANPADS and AAA of various calibers.
The Syrian nuclear reactor was of North Korean design, built with the assistance of North Korean engineers and the crew were trained by North Korean advisors.
Nope none of those old systems - russia had supplied them with some thing recent not s300 maybe TORs in part for the rebuilding of the russian base in syria, which now has or will have s300 s400s.
'On October 13th, the Heritage Party issued a statement in connection with the signing of the Armenian-Turkish Protocols in Zurich, which indicates that the process of normalizing relations between Armenia and Turkey is imposed by the international community.
“Heritage” warns that during the following stages of normalization of relations Armenia will have to deal with the Turkish state, which systematically violates its obligations.
In their statement, the Heritage Party again criticized the activities of the Armenian diplomacy and Armenian-Turkish Protocols, highlighting their negative aspects. Heritage argues that signing of the protocols is illegal, since protocols were signed by the leadership, came to power through rigged elections.
The "Heritage" Party demands resignation of the Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan and calls upon all political forces to unite efforts.
http://www.panarmenian.net/news/eng/?nid=37817
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